things are still moving forward on immigration after president obama picked up a phone to reach out to republicans. he called john mccain and lindsay graham and marco rubio. in a statement the white house said the president reiterated that he remained supportive of the effort underway in congress. as that phone call came in for

one senator, so did something of a backlash for constituents. at two town hall meetings in arizona, john mccain had to defend his position on immigration and it got heated. several voters called illegal immigrants criminals and asked why armed soldiers can't defend the entire border. >> cut off their welfare and all of their stuff and go back. >> majority of them are not -- >> you're a senator with the federal government and you're doing nothing about it. you said build a dang fence. where's the fence? >> in case you missed it, i showed you -- >> that's not a fence. >> it's a banana, we've put up a banana with all -- >> let me bring in "washington post" reporter felicia san dez and jackie, we knew this wasn't going to be easy. what do you think away from that

town hall meeting? do you think the folks are representative of a bigger problem for some of these members of congress who want to move forward? should we just expect some of those kind of people turn out for town hall meetings? >> we saw this the last time this went through with president bush. for john mccain, this isn't his first rodeo. when he ran for president there were town halls screaming about him about immigration. a lot of other members of congress who may not be as time tested with that type of crowd should learn to get used to it. we're going to see a lot as this debate goes forward. from certain members of the republican base that don't really want to see something go through that would allow illegal immigrants have a path to citizenship. >> let me play another clip from the town hall. >> you want to round up 11 million people and send them back to their country? they are not going to do that.

they are not going to do that. >> you're saying 11 million, it's more like 30 million. >> you're not telling the truth, not telling the fact. wait a minute, i've got to stop you when you tell these people something that's untrue. >> obviously felicia, john mccain is as jackie pointed out very aware of this faction of his party. the white house knows it too. how do they work around this with members of congress who come from districts that have very vocal, even if they are minorities of people who don't want a path to citizenship? >> i think it's a really interesting timing when you look at the leak of the white house plan they've been developing behind the scenes here and this town hall that senator mccain has held this past week. you're seeing really the delicate balancing act that a lot of republicans are facing right now, the four members who are of course part of the bipartisan group and senator mccain is one of them. it shows they've got to be careful not to be seen as working too closely with the white house, which is why you've got senator marco rubio of florida aggressively pushing

back hard and saying we have nothing to do with this white house plan at all. and if there is really going to be any plan they are able to get through in both chambers they are going to have to be seen as working really independently of the obama administration on this. >> and at the same time, this is part of the frustration the white house feels, jackie, we heard all of this criticism from republicans who said the president hasn't reached out. he makes the phone calls yesterday. let me read part of the white house statement about that. he thanked the senators for their leadership and made clear that he and his staff look forward to continuing to work together with their teams to achieve needed reform. senator rubio's statement said in part, the senator told the president he feels good about the ongoing negotiations in the senate and is hopeful the final product is something that can pass the senate with strong bipartisan support. so these criticisms and back and forth, are they just really messaging to their conservative base? and in fact, everybody thinks something is going to get done. what's going on?

>> there's a little bit of fear going on. when you look at the president's plan, it's really not -- the one that he rolled out, the proposal, it's really not that different than what these senators have rolled out. there's the mechanism where border enforcement is tied to whether people can start becoming citizens in the senator's plan and obama's plan doesn't have that. they are not that far away. this messaging, there is a little bit of theater going on here and we'll see that going forward, but the president has said he's willing to let the senate do its senate thing and if they stall, then we'll see what happens and we might see this other plan coming through. >> i wonder who else will be a player in this. we know, for example that a coalition of latino and african-american and church groups are starting a push to make sure the immigration reform happens and going to have street rallies and bus tour and they are going to have ads. so i'm wondering, felicia, does this play into it at all, or really are the key players already known here, people like

the president and marco rubio? >> i think when it comes to any big comprehensive legislation like this, you're going to have the outside groups playing a big role. when you look at things that have been happening on capitol hill over the past two years or so, it's very rare that you actually had members of both parties gathering together to try to craft legislation like this. a lot of times it's happening behind closed doors in deals like the fiscal cliff deal or debt ceiling deal. the very fact the process is happening and advocates know that their members are working together on this makes it much more likely for them to get involved. as those senators involved in this have mentioned. they are not planning to get a bill to the floor until march. so i think you're only going to see those efforts stepping up in the next few weeks. >> i want to bring in congressman castro, it's good to have you on the show.

they would have had loved to have a tap on the phone, three republicans that he talked to yesterday talking about immigration. what do you take away from that? >> i think that the president is serious about working in a bipartisan way to get comprehensive immigration reform done. he does want to be a leader on this but also that he respects the role of the congress and specifically of those republicans who have gone out on a limb a bit to make comprehensive immigration reform a reality. >> we've been talking about the c contentious town hall, only guns will discourage illegal immigration. most illegal immigrants are i will literal and want free benefits. how much of that do you hear? and how much of a problem are people like that to comprehensive immigration reform? >> well, i think nobody has ever thought that getting it through congress would be a cake walk. we've expected some of that.

for republicans it's tougher because that group tends to be in their party. it was an ugly scene. and sadly, there is a profound misunderstanding among this group about the life of immigrants here in the united states. so it is going to be a little bit of a tough path. but, you know, we've got to remember that 60% of the american public supports a path to earned citizenship. when you hear a loud angry mob like that, you've got to realize, that's not the majority of americans. >> do you get a sense -- and we talked about this new coalition of latino and african-american and labor church groups who want to make a push for immigration, do you get a sense that people who support immigration reform are getting more activists and can make more of a difference than they have in the past? >> oh, absolutely. i think this issue has galvanized and strengthened a lot of different groups. it's not the traditional democratic groups but now you also have the faith evangelical

community and business community like chamber of commerce, which is mostly republican, coming together with democratic groups to support a push for comprehensive reform. >> another big issue hanging over congress is the sequester. the clock is ticking. a lot of criticism that you folks are back in your districts, not in washington today. and when you come back, there will be five days to get something done. is there time? will there be a deal? >> i hope that there is -- >> what do you think the chances realistically are though? >> right now i put it at 50/50, either we see a deal before march 1st or in march we come to an agreement. >> will it get done before the economy starts to feel the impact before thousands of people lose their jobs? >> it absolutely should. that would be the responsible thing to do. >> congressman joaquin castro, come back again, it's good to see you. >> i will. >> i want to play a part of what president obama said yesterday

about the sequester. take say listen. >> border patrol agents will see their hours reduced. fbi agents will be furloughed. federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. air traffic controllers and airport security will see cutbacks. >> the new york times did reporting and found that those things obviously may happen eventually, but march 1st is not going to be some date when all of a sudden everything happens. and they actually think many members of congress have more time to play with. how is that perception playing in to the sense of urgency on capitol hill? >> if the president isn't able to rally the public and build public opinion that this is a bad thing, it's going to be -- i think the public has been told the sky is falling a lot by this congress. if it doesn't fall on march 1st, i don't think you're going to be -- the president will be able to do that.

now, if there are some residual and wall street isn't phased by this and wasn't phased by the debt ceiling all that much, it's going to depend on public opinion as far as the president is concerned and on capitol hill, yeah, i think it's very possible we could be talking about this into march as they try to staple together something to put this off longer. >> the fingerpointing hasn't stopped and john boehner wrote an op-ed as the president's outrage about the sequester grows the republicans have a simple response, mr. president, we agree that your sequester is bad policy. what spending are you willing to cut to replace it? and felicia, revenue obviously sounds like it's off the table. that's what republicans have been saying all along. are democrats going to hold out thinking, we've got it last time, let's try again? >> i think it's interesting when the white house has been asked about this, they decline to say

what type of balanced deal they would like to see on what specific ratio. i think the sign that's we're getting from all sides right now, they are not going to be able to come to a table and get to some kind of agreement. the fact on both sides they are still trying to attribute the blame for whose fault the sequester actually is is not a good sign in these talks. i think more interesting though, when you look at the change that's happened on the republican side since last year. around this time last year, you had many congressional republicans saying that the sequester is absolute something that must be avoided at all costs and this would be really devastating particularly on the military cut side of things. now you're seeing because of alet of cuts included in some these previous debt deals were not as substantive as the republican conference thought they were going to be, you're seeing a lot of those lawmakers changing their minds and saying the sequester wouldn't be such a bad thing and maybe this could be that package of spending cuts that we're hoping to make our legacy on capitol hill.

i think you're seeing the battle ground shifting a lot here and a lot going forward is going to depend on those republicans in the house. >> as we say, the clock it is ticking. felicia son dzmez and jackie kucinich, thanks very much. surprising details coming out, witnesses painting a chilling picture from the nice oscar pistorius shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. one neighbor heard an in our of nonstop shouting before the gunshots but the defense says that person lives 2,000 feet away and found testosterone and needles in the room. the defense responded it was a herbal brand and not against the rules. they are testing the substance and we don't know exactly what it is yet. i'm phil mickelson, pro golfer. when i was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, my rheumatologist prescribed enbrel

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the nation's largest employer, walmart, appears worried about the economy. internal e-mails obtained by bloomberg show shoppers are feeling the pinch of the take roll tax hike. one describes february sales as a total disaster. another asks, where are all of the customers? where's their money? the "washington post" sums it up this way. walmart is freaking out about the economy, should the rest of us? let's bring in "washington post" economic policy correspondent jim. should the rest of us freak out? >> maybe, there's two possible stories, one is that walmart is seeing is very bad for the rest of the economy. and that's the story like this. consumers weren't expecting a big payroll tax hike to hit them in january and started to notice it when the paychecks were lighter than expected in the first half of the month, seconds

half of the month. they pulled way back on spending in february. there's going to be some of that effect going on. obviously most economists think the payroll tax hike will chill growth in some way. the question is, will consumers adjust and is it sort of a one time deal? the other story though, walmart tends do do very well in recessions because they are such a retailer that caters to the lower end of the economic spectrum. they've stocked cheap products. it's possible if people are doing better now they are moving to slightly more expensive rivals of walmart like target, which could very well be the case too. it could be a mix or one or the other. >> is it still overall bad news? isn't walmart a huge, relatively huge to anyone else, percentage of the gdp? >> yeah, they are a big deal. we should never get too excited about any one company. but what they represent here is very important, a lot of

americans shop at walmart. if a lot of americans aren't shopping right now because they have less money because their taxes went up and that's something that's going to provoke a sustained pull back in consumer spending, that is going to hurt gdp growth. >> here's a $6 million question, walmart stocks took a hit but if you look at the stock market, we're one good rally away from really setting some records. obviously we're over 14,000 even as we speak. what's a better indicator? walmart sales or the dow jones? >> i wouldn't call either of them a perfect indicator but a lot of what's going on in the market right now is reflective of optimism that things are going to get better and reflective of the facts that the federal reserve keeps doing things to stimulate the economy. i think if there's one thing we might take away from the walmart experience, is that evidence like this is the sort of thing that will keep the fed easing monetary policy for longer. if that's the case, the stock market is going to keep rallying because the feds moves have been

very good for stocks. >> even if the sequester kicks in. >> the sequester is a big thing hanging over the economy right now. we're looking at the fairly large, at least a point slice off growth if the sequester goes through in the region -- >> a full point slice? >> full point of growth, sure. like 700,000 jobs was the macro advisers estimate yesterday. it's a big deal. if it goes through it's a big deal. >> jim tankersley, good to have you. >> thanks for having me. >> jesse jackson jr. is expected to enter a guilty plea in federal court charged with illegally spending $750,000 of campaign money. buying things like michael jackson memorabilia. his wife will appear in the same court this afternoon charged as a co-sprt or, charged with filing false tax returns. time for the your business

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page like burger king was just yesterday. you know, it's a real threat. >> cnbc's mandy drury, thanks so much. now to a clash of the republican titans over the future of their part. newt gingrich is going after karl rove saying he is plain rock with his super pac strategy to pick the most conservative to win. gingrich writes, i'm unalterably aposed financing a boss to pick candidates in 50 states. it should be repugnant to every conservative and republican. a tea party group is apologizing to rove after a fund raising e-mail went out that showed him photo shopped into a nazi uniform. they say it was a vendor error and the image was inappropriate. while we may have strong disagreements with him on future of conservatism, we want to be clear this imagery is absolutely

unacceptable and are working to ensure this type of mistake doesn't happen again. let me bring in former pennsylvania governor and nbc news political analysts ed rendell and republican strategist and santorum senior strategist john braybender. >> the republican party has to understand it's been two months since the election and mourning period is over and it's time to stop the infighting. second of all, a lot of this is miscommunications, he is misrepresenting what karl rove actually said. what rove is saying, we no longer should pick a candidate because they can check off the box they believe everything that the tea party does if they are not going to be a good candidate. we have to find conservative candidates who can win in november. our messaging is way off, instead of fighting each other, we have to show average lunch bucket americans how the republican party will fight for them. we've done a very poor job at doing that. >> governor, to john's point,

one of the things they are fighting over is the past, they are fighting over the election and how many of nine senate races they think they could have won. i think there's a lot of general agreement, even between rove and gingrich that todd akin and richard murdoch may not have been the best candidates. gingrich said it wasn't a candidate problem that they weren't extreme republicans, something else was at work. is it the candidate or message? >> it's both. sometimes it is the candidate and murdoch and akin and the witch lady, those -- >> christine o'donnell. >> yeah, those were clearly the candidates themselves that caused the defeat. sometimes it's a message. i agree with most of what john says. i think karl rove is actually -- i'm not sure he said it the right way but his strategy is a good one. but it's not just a message, it's the substance. the substance of what this party has been captured by is totally

out of whack with the majority of american people and it appears in substance they've learned nothing from the election results. they did terribly with women and yet in state after state republican legislators and some republican governors have gone after issues that are near and dear to women. ohio has a bill on the floor that would reinstate a personhood amendment, they are appearing to be obstructionists. first time in the history of our country that a cabinet choice of a president was filibustered. it's just a disaster for the republican party and it's more substance than messaging. it's a little of both. substance of what they believe is one of the real problems. >> i'm wondering who the face of the republican party is or is going to be, john, in the future. ted cruz, marco rubio on the cover of "time" or look at the numbers that came out today for chris christie, 74% approval for

what he's doing. is he the changing face of the republican party? what do you think, john? >> i think it's too soon to know. if it is somebody who thinks the party is only about tax breaks for the rich or keeping loopholes for corporations, they are not going to get anywhere ever in the party. it has to be somebody who can say, i'm tired of people thinking that's who we fight for. we have to take somebody who is a hard working family, be in ohio or florida, hispanic, african-american, white american and understand we're fight aring for their take home pay to go up and to have the family controls they can to keep hollywood out when they want and not this children interrupted by violence and sex at any moment, and nobody is fighting for those type of things that hard working americans really care about. >> i think maybe -- don't you think, governor, part of the reason chris christie is so popular, he does articulate

those things in a very straight forward chris christie kind of way. on the other hand, they did a head to head match-up between christie and hillary clinton and she wins 49-45% in new jersey. >> right. none of that is really important because it isn't chris christie who is the face of the republican party, for better or worse, the 27/7 news cycle have made john boehner and mitch mcconnell the face of the republican party to the american people. and john is right, the message is terrible. they are opposing the buff et rule, that has been advanced by senate democrats as getting out of the sequester. it says millionaires should pay a percentage on their taxes no matter what deductions they have and that percentage is about what the average working american pays. what's wrong with that? why don't the republican party embrace that? >> let me ask you, john, about the piece that kathleen parker

wrote in the "washington post." it's time for rinos, republicans in name only, to take back the party. rinos need to be defy antly proud and centrist and unapologetically sane. is that what you're saying too? >> not at all. i think conservative principles have not failed it is the messengers have failed conservatism. where is it that if we're going to be -- we're not just a family -- party that's pro birth we're also pro-life. that means protecting children from this terrible $18 trillion debt that's being placed on their back. where are we in fighting for that and fighting so those kids have a chance? we have to be a party that says every single american can reach the american dream and have that opportunity. that's what we should be focusing on not the labels that everybody wants to talk about. >> john brabender, governor rendell, good to talk to both of you. >> we'll be right back. e s a pi. well now i'm her dietitian and last year, she wasn't eating so well.

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here's something new and interesting in the gun control debate. vice president joe biden, who of course is the president's point man on guns, now says he coached his on wife on self-defense. they own, he says, two shotguns. >> as i told my wife, we live in an area that's wooded and it's somewhat secluded. if there's ever a problem, walk out on the balcony and put that double barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house. i promise you whoever is coming in -- >> his point is that assault rifles are not the answer. the gun debate is escalating as the number of women buying guns is on the rise as well. a gallup poll found in 2005, 13% of women owned gun and in 2011, up to 23%. gun shops say they are now seeing a surge since newtown. i'm joined by kelly wallace and

leah goldman for "marie claire." >> it's really about the demographics. now you're seeing this surge of women getting married later, single longer, really running their households by themselves and the gun manufacturers and gun lobby has figured that out. so now they are marketing to those women and saying, safety ladies, you need to arm yourself with a gun. >> making smaller guns and pink guns and guns can put in your cleavage. >> some women will say, they are sort of offended by the use of pink, although one woman in a story said at least her husband wasn't going to use it. but there is something there. more women in law enforcement and more women in the military, single mothers, owning their own businesses. the issue then becomes this kind of look at the statistics, right? women are more likely to be a victim of gun violence than using a gun --

>> far more likely. >> exactly. >> one study showed women with guns in the home are three times more likely to be victims of homicide than women who live in households that don't have a gun. >> having a gun in your home definitely increases your risk as a woman, not a man, as a woman of being a victim of gun related violence. that said, there is a healthy contention in this country that supports owning a gun for safety measures and by and large, that's -- this is what he is talking about when i said i instructed my wife how to use a shotgun. the issue is arm yourself but do you need a semiautomatic weapon to do that. >> magazine with 30 clips, yeah. >> i think women don't support that. >> the other part of it is and there was talk in the immediate aftermath of newtown, would there be something analogous to the drunk driving controversy? mothers against drunk driving, definitely changed the conversation. they were behind laws and now

it's not socially acceptable to drink and drive, it was moms who did that. are you surprised -- i know both of you hear from readers, are you hearing from women in a way they would come together and look for not taking a way people's guns all together -- but more control? >> i think definitely. you're seeing a couple of things. i think you are seeing moms who say that moms get things done and moms can mobilize in marches and states, mobilize in washington and make voices heard in the 2014 election. we do see moms on the other side too who do feel no gun control isn't the answer, it's going the wrong way. focus on mental health, doing more to help the kids in need and don't take away what some moms will say is my right to have a gun and protect ourself. even though as we're discussing here, the stats are more likely a gun in the home could lead to being a victim of violence than using it in self-defense. >> what we hear from our readers

at marie claire, who aren't necessarily married but running their own households and single, they appreciate the choice of owning a gun and yet, they subscribe to reasonable measures when it comes to gun safety and gun control, a national reg tri and universal background checks by most women. these are reasonable common sense measures that i think most women, moms, single, doesn't matter subscribe too. >> one of the things i've found after newtown, in my entire career in reporting, never have so many people affected by a story such as newtown. they are talking about it as many. i wonder if you felt kmared to other stories you run that it had a lot of traction and depth? >> it does and it continues to have that -- >> still? >> still, absolutely. and women are responding, but i have to say, just like you hear from your readers, we really hear from women passionately on

both sides. we did a q and a with the vice president's chief of staff on washington and wanted questions on gun control, i would say it was 50/50, half asking more about supportive of gun control measures in washington and the other half saying this is the wrong way to go. focus elsewhere, don't go ahead and put more laws on the books. you're hearing passion but we're hearing it from both sides. >> ivillage's kelly wallace and leah goldman. great to see you both. the obama administration is hoping to launch a ground breaking $3 billion project to map the human brain. research that could lead to breakthroughs in treatment for autism, schizophrenia and ep leps. in the state of the union address, the president mentioned brain research as an example to invest in the best ideas. >> every dollar we invested returned $140 to our economy. today our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the

answers to alz himers. now is not the time to gut the investment, now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race. we need to make those investments. >> i'm joined by columbia professor of neuroscience, one of the few select scientists who will appear at the white house next month and talk about what's called a brain activity map. fascinating stuff. thanks for being here, professor. >> you're welcome. >> what exactly does it mean to map the brain? >> so, this is the human brain. it is the most sophisticated and complex piece of matter in the universe. and there's a 100 billion nerons, connected in ways wez don't understand and firing away in patterns and they create our minds and creates what we are, our thoughts and memories and

most of our muscles and our whole personality. what we want to do is build instruments to go in there and watch those patterns. >> what kinds of things would you find? what would you be looking for? >> coordinated activity of hundreds of neurons across the brain in laboratory animals and hopefully humans too, to decipher what these patterns mean and how they create cognition. >> learn how it works, understand disease as well, right? >> exactly. you cannot fix a machine until you understand how it works. so we're motivated by mental disease and neurological diseases and like to find out the pathowe fizz yoelg, what's wrong with these brains. >> obviously this was part of the president's big push. what most likely are the kinds

of diseases that could be helped, the research to cure or to treat diseases by doing this mapping? >> for example, epilepsy, if we build the types of new devices to image how epilepsy spreads through the brain, we'll understand what neurons are defective and how we can rechannel the activity to stop seizures and schizophrenia, same thing, what are the patterns of activity in the brain pressing a schizophrenic patient that are abnormal. and another example paralyzed patients, can we build devices that stimulate the neurons and tackle them to computers to move artificial limbs. >> you think less likely in the short term and we're talking years, even, short term. >> decades. >> alz himer's, park insons more difficult? >> they could be profoundly

affected by the development particularly because we can build probes that are sensitive to particular molecules that are generated in als himer's disease and parkinson's and we can make a map of the patient's brains as well. >> i remember a steven spielberg movie called a.i. how would this play into it? >> if we can figure out how the brain works, this would be inspiring for science and technology in general and could create a new types of computers and electronic circuits that would be buy logically inspired and copying the tricks nature has put in our brains and brains of mammals and animals and try to get that into the technology. that's what the person was referring to, partly in terms of generation of new jobs and industrial avenues for the country for the world. >> doctor, congratulations about being chosen as one of the few to go to the white house.

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